Weekly maintenance
The whole panel every visit, including calcium hardness and phosphate — the two readings that tell you what the wind has been doing.
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Pool service in Altadena, CA
Foothill wind and ash load mean Altadena pools need the filter watched more closely than the calendar suggests.
Licensed, insured and family-owned
Most calls start here
What usually goes wrong here
Four things, and none of them is really about leaves.
A fine gray film returns a day after every clean
Wind-borne ash and mineral dust are too fine for the skimmer. They sink, get stirred up and settle again — a vacuum-and-filter problem, not a chemistry one.
Filter cleaningAsh does not just dirty the water, it moves it
Wood ash is alkaline. Enough of it pushes pH and alkalinity up, which makes chlorine lazy, and the organic fraction adds phosphate — algae food.
Weekly serviceCalcium climbs because the wind takes the water
Every inch that evaporates leaves its calcium behind and the auto-fill adds more. Scale lands on the tile line and inside the salt cell.
Salt system repairA windy week drops the level and the pump pays for it
Below the skimmer throat the pump pulls air, loses prime and can run dry. Auto-fills fail silently, so the first sign is a noisy pump.
What we repair
Why Altadena is different
Higher, drier and dustier
Altadena sits a few hundred feet above Pasadena on the open fan below the San Gabriels. Down the hill the problem is leaves; up here it is everything the canyon wind carries.
Fine grit, dust and ash sail straight past a skimmer basket and load the cartridge instead. A pool in 91001 can look clean at the surface and still need its filter every week.
Foothill top-up water is hard and a windy site evaporates hard, so calcium concentrates faster here — see what pool service costs.
After
BeforeWhat we do for Altadena pools
Five jobs cover almost every call
Dust and hard fill water change which service a pool needs, and when.
Green to clean
Phosphate-fed algae moves fast in warm water. About two days, no draining, and the filter cleaned two to three times during it.
Acid wash
For a shell gone gray and blotchy rather than merely dirty. It removes a thin layer of plaster, so it is done rarely and deliberately.
Equipment repair
Salt cells scale first in hard water; auto-fills and heaters are next. Pumps, filters, plumbing, lights and automation too.
New plaster start-up
Hard fill water makes the first four weeks fussier: hardness at 200–400 ppm, pH 7.2–7.6, brushing daily, no salt for 28 days.
Pricing
Weekly pool service, by pool size
Volume decides chemical demand, so it decides the price. Typical homes land between $179 and $249 a month. Chemicals included, no minimum contract.
- Up to 15,000 gal (14×28 ft)from $159 / mo
- 15,000–25,000 gal (16×32 ft)from $179 / mo
- 25,000–40,000 gal (20×40 ft)from $219 / mo
- Over 40,000 gal, spas, water featuresfrom $249 / mo
- Second weekly visit+$129 / mo
- Spa on the same property+$35 / mo
- Extra cartridge filter clean$119
- Two deep filter cleans a yearincluded
Prices as of August 2026, for a pool in normal condition.
One-time work
Bigger jobs, and where each one starts
Quoted on the job, because nobody can price a green pool from a web form.
Worth mentioning when you call
Ask which day the Altadena route runs
Altadena is served on the days that climb the hill out of Pasadena. Send the cross streets and we will name the day.
- Gate and slope. Steep drives and locked side gates change how long a visit takes.
- Gates are latched. Every visit, on the way out.
- Pools and spas. Both are covered by the same weekly plan.
- No one-time routine cleans. A pool that has sat needs a recovery before a route.
- Days, not neighborhoods. Which day still has room matters more than which street you are on.
- Chemicals are included. No separate monthly invoice for chlorine and acid.
The crew
The people on the Altadena route
Four of us. The same faces every week, not whoever was free that morning.
Daniel RamirezOwner 
Jake MitchellRoute technician 
Robert AndersonRepair technician 
Emily CarterOffice & scheduling
- 2023
- Family business since
- #970493
- Licence C-53 · C-61/D-35, bonded
- 20
- Neighborhoods on our routes
- $159
- Weekly service from, per month
An Altadena job, start to finish
A pool reshaped to fit its room
A seventies outdoor pool that a later extension enclosed indoors: cut back, rebuilt on one side and finished as one pool.
- Property
- Indoor pool, built in the 1970s
- Location
- Altadena
- Work
- Structural shape change and new interior
- Finish
- Pebble interior, bluestone paving
What went into the job
- Old surface opened up to reach the original steel
- New reinforcement anchored and lapped into it
- Formwork set the new line, concrete placed and vibrated
- Skimmer, main drain and depth all kept
- Old and new finished as one pool
The result
A straighter footprint, proper access all the way round the water, and a new interior in a room that finally works.
Nearby, and on the same routes
Finished pools around Altadena
Pasadena, La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta share the hill days that serve Altadena.
Pool tiling
Rust repair and full tiling
Hollow render and rust cut out, then the whole shell tiled.
Glendale
Pool tiling
Painted pool to fully tiled
Out of repaints, so retiled, with sandstone paving around it.
Eagle Rock
Pool tiling
Fully tiled pool and spa
Grey tile across pool and spa, seen from the air.
La Cañada Flintridge
Step by step
Altadena, before and after
The structural work underneath decides how the finish reads.
What Altadena neighbors say
Mark H.
Local Guide · 42 reviews · 18 photos
3 September 2025
Came home from a two-week vacation and our pool was basically green. The previous company told us we needed to drain it, which sounded crazy. Pool Care LA came out, tested everything, explained what was happening and started the cleanup. Took a little time but now the water looks better than it has in years.Read in fullCollapse
Linda R.
4 reviews
25 May 2026
We had another pool company for almost five years and slowly the service got worse. They would say they came but the pool was always dirty. Jake from Pool Care LA has been completely different. He actually checks the equipment and lets us know if something needs attention.Read in fullCollapse
Kevin B.
15 December 2025
Our pump stopped working on a Friday afternoon and we were worried because we had family coming over that weekend. Robert came out, found the problem and got everything running again. Honest guy, and he explained everything before doing the repair.Read in fullCollapse
Jason T.
25 February 2026
Great company. Always on time, pool looks amazing and communication is easy. Highly recommend.
Ashley P.
11 reviews
4 March 2026
I don't usually leave reviews but these guys deserve it. My pool was a mess and I was tired of trying to fix the chemicals myself. They came out and took care of everything. Water is clear now and I don't have to worry anymore.Read in fullCollapse
Thomas W.
Local Guide · 27 reviews · 9 photos
10 February 2025
Bought a house in Beverly Hills with an older pool and honestly had no idea how to maintain it. The equipment was old and everything was confusing. They walked me through what needed to be done first and what could wait. No pressure. That was appreciated.Read in fullCollapse
Rachel M.
17 October 2025
We thought we needed a completely new pool system. Turns out it was just a few issues with the pump and filter. They saved us a lot of money by fixing what actually needed fixing.
Jennifer C.
Local Guide · 15 reviews · 4 photos
7 September 2025
We have two kids and keeping the pool safe is important for us. Since switching to Pool Care LA the water has been consistently clean and balanced. It is nice knowing someone is actually paying attention every week.Read in fullCollapse
Tell us about your Altadena pool
Tell us what the pool needs, how big it is and your ZIP — and a price the same day.
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For weekly maintenance members
Green-to-clean, acid wash, plaster start-up and repair labor, plus priority on the schedule.
Where we work
Where our routes run
Crews leave from Studio City every morning. Open any area for what is different there.
Which day would we run Altadena?
Send your ZIP or cross streets. We come back the same day with the day we would be there — and what weekly service would cost on your pool.
Or call (818) 740-6099
Written for Altadena pool owners
Written for Foothill and Valley homeowners.
Finishes
What colour will your pool water be?
Water has no colour of its own — the interior gives it one.
Not stock footage
Filmed on the Altadena route
Filmed on the Altadena route and the streets next to it. Nothing staged, nothing bought from a stock library.
Questions Altadena homeowners ask
There is a fine gray layer on the floor a day after cleaning. What is it?
Almost always wind-borne ash and mineral dust rather than algae. Brush a patch to tell: dust puffs into a cloud and drifts back down, algae smears and clings. It gets vacuumed out and caught by the filter, which is why pressure rises sooner than usual.
Does ash actually change the chemistry, or is it just dirt?
It changes it. Ash is alkaline, so a heavy load pushes pH and total alkalinity up, and chlorine works poorly at high pH. The organic part adds phosphate, which algae feed on. After a dusty stretch the useful readings are pH, alkalinity and phosphate.
My calcium hardness keeps climbing. Do I have to drain the pool?
Not usually, and not quickly. Calcium is the one reading you cannot lower by adding something — it only comes down by dilution. In practice: hold the balance, brush, watch the tile line and the salt cell, and replace part of the water only once the number has run away.
The level dropped fast after a windy week. Is that a leak?
Often it is just evaporation: wind over an open pool takes water fast, and an exposed Altadena garden loses more than a sheltered one. A bucket of pool water left on the step settles it — it drops at the pool's rate if the cause is evaporation, slower if the pool is leaking.
How much does pool service cost in Altadena?
Weekly service starts at $159 a month for a pool up to 15,000 gallons and runs to $249 a month for pools over 40,000, with standard chemicals included. Most customers pay between $179 and $249. Altadena is priced the same as everywhere else on our routes — the address does not change the number, the pool does. One-time work is quoted on the job: green to clean from $349, acid wash from $749, equipment repair at $175 an hour.
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